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Wake Up to Your Life by Ken McLeod

Wake Up to Your Life

Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention

Ken McLeod

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · March 26, 2002

The key to becoming fully alive and joyful is to develop our natural capacity for attention and to be fully present here and now.

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Who it’s for
A practical Buddhist guide to attention, presence, equanimity, and compassion in everyday life.
Themes
Attention and present-moment awareness, Practical Buddhism, Compassion and equanimity
Genres
Buddhism - General, Meditation, Buddhist Thought

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About this book

The key to becoming fully alive and joyful is to develop our natural capacity for attention and to be fully present here and now. In this informative guidebook to practical Buddhism you discover: - How to live life with equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion, and joy - How to cut through obsessions with the external world, relationships, harmful emotions, pleasure and power, and self - Tried-and-true methods for cultivating active attention with your body and mind.

Attention, Made Practical

A practical Buddhist guide to attention, presence, equanimity, and compassion in everyday life.

Come here for

  • Ways to meet life with loving-kindness, compassion, and joy
  • A Buddhist approach to loosening your grip on harmful emotions and self

Expect

  • Methods for cultivating active attention with body and mind
  • A focus on being fully present here and now

Where it sits

Meditation72%
Buddhism - General35%
Buddhist Thought23%

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Publisher categories

  • Meditation
  • Prayer & Healing
  • Mind & Body
  • Buddhist Thought
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  • Buddhism - General
  • Tibetan Buddhism
  • Meditations
  • Spirituality
Authors
Ken McLeod
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
March 26, 2002
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Attention and present-moment awareness · Practical Buddhism · Compassion and equanimity
Reading lane
Meditation